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Mar. 8th, 2006 11:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nyankoframe"What is it?", you may ask? Well, it's Touch 2006, the annual concert of the NUS Piano Ensemble, which is held in March every year.
This year's concert is especially important for me because it marks the first time I'm performing at the concert after 3 years of doing backstage and other things such as video filming (and subsequent editing).
I'm very grateful that I've been given a chance to perform after making it through the auditions, and I'd especially like to thank our group's tutor, Mr Timothy Ku, for giving me the opportunity to perform, and for putting up with the trouble I caused him. I'd also like to thank my partner, Allan, for being accommodating of the very divergent amount of musical experience and styles each of us has.
And finally, I'd like to thank in advance everyone who will be attending, and I hope that the group as a whole, and my item in particular, can provide you your money's worth. See all of you there! :-)
edit: I ♥ everyone who's posted comments :)
A little something about the music (taken from the Wikipedia article on Scott Joplin). The Wikipedia article links to several locations where scores can be obtained freely (as the music is now in the public domain) such as this one.
This year's concert is especially important for me because it marks the first time I'm performing at the concert after 3 years of doing backstage and other things such as video filming (and subsequent editing).
I'm very grateful that I've been given a chance to perform after making it through the auditions, and I'd especially like to thank our group's tutor, Mr Timothy Ku, for giving me the opportunity to perform, and for putting up with the trouble I caused him. I'd also like to thank my partner, Allan, for being accommodating of the very divergent amount of musical experience and styles each of us has.
And finally, I'd like to thank in advance everyone who will be attending, and I hope that the group as a whole, and my item in particular, can provide you your money's worth. See all of you there! :-)
edit: I ♥ everyone who's posted comments :)
A little something about the music (taken from the Wikipedia article on Scott Joplin). The Wikipedia article links to several locations where scores can be obtained freely (as the music is now in the public domain) such as this one.
Joplin had several marriages. Perhaps his dearest love, Freddie Alexander, died at age twenty just two months after they married, of complications resulting from a cold. The first work copyrighted after Freddie's death, Bethena (1905), is a very sad, musically complex ragtime waltz.
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Date: 2006-03-08 05:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-08 11:23 pm (UTC)I'm sure you did fantastically.
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Date: 2006-03-08 11:43 pm (UTC)And this is your birthday present. :P
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Date: 2006-03-09 12:02 am (UTC)Well then, you WILL perform, and I'm still sure you'll do well. :D
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Date: 2006-03-09 12:40 am (UTC)Thanks. :) I'm not too sure how soon I'll be able to listen to what I played, but when I can, I'll let everyone know.
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Date: 2006-03-09 12:47 am (UTC)*facepalm*
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Date: 2006-03-09 12:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-09 02:10 pm (UTC)